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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

I think Pam Ward is spreading Streptococcus Stupidae around ESPN. That, or the MNF crew is watching too many games on BTN.

Meanwhile, Gruden is going his best Frank Caliendo impersonation. He really can't say enough about the unbelievable awesomeness of Brett Favre (hallowed be his name). Apparently, #4 is a good player. Ask him, (or don't) he'll tell you. Again, and again, and again.

Yeesh. Maybe I can find a rerun of This Old House.

*EDIT* And I just heard Gruden say, "When a team is backed up to the goal line Jared Allen sniffs the quarterback." Aw, geez.

I thought Gruden did well. Plus, tonight really was all about Brett Favre. Its the heated Vikings vs Packers rivalry, where Favre plays his old team, it had so many story lines.

Believe me, after living in Wisconsin for a number of years, this rivalry is almost as big as the Michigan/OSU rivalry to us. Most people in Wisconsin care more about the Packers than they do the Badgers, and they absolutely hate the Vikings.

Anyways, I thought Gruden did good job, Jaws is Jaws, and Tirico was his usual self (being a good commentator and play by play announcer).

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.

There are a small number of movies that I'll always stop channel surfing to watch when I come across them. Escape from New York is at or near the very top of that list. Snake Plissken is an all-time great low hero.

Other members of that list: Sergio Leoni's Man With No Name / Dollars trilogy, featuring the inestimable Clint Eastwood; Evil Dead and its progeny, featuring b-movie legend, Michigan native and WMU grad Bruce Campbell (just about any Bruce Campbell flick, for that matter), and pretty much any Hitchcock movie.